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This is super awesome, definitely borrowing this to send a text push notification Edit: isn’t this super costly for personal use?

• rsync 5y ago
  "Edit: isn’t this super costly for personal use?" Not really ... I notice twilio deducting USD $9 every 10 or 12 days ? It's a business expense. I also 'lookup' numbers to check if they are mobile or not: curl -s -X GET "https://lookups.twilio.com/v1/PhoneNumbers/$number?Type=carrier&Type=caller-name" -u $accountsid:$authtoken | /usr/local/bin/jq '.' ... which is handy. Usually shows their name and carrier ID as well. As you can see, I pipe it through 'jq' because that's what all the cool kids do.
  • scgtrp 5y ago
    If (you're into microoptimizing things and) all you care about is whether they're mobile, you can leave out `Type=caller-name` to save a whole one cent per lookup :) And if you're doing this before you try to SMS them, you can skip the lookup entirely, if it's a landline you'll just get an error back. (I work at a company that uses Twilio heavily and it's full of this sort of microoptimization)
  • sgarland 5y ago
    How is `/usr/local/bin` not in your PATH?
    • binwiederhier 5y ago
      Maybe it's a custom jq version?